Posted by
Mike on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:41:01 PM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
Ronald Reagan's biggest fault was his actor's vanity.
Today,
media mavens bemoan the great divide between the Republican
Establishment represented by the likes of Colin Powell and David Brooks
on the one hand, and the rank and file voters represented by Rush
Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin and her husband Todd on the
other. Michelle Laxalt, the daughter of the late Nevada Senator and
member of the Establishment, commented brashly to Chris Matthews
recently that she is a Republican and dislikes Rush Limbaugh, which
only goes to show how out of touch with reality she is. The older
generation of intellectuals like Bill Buckley are gone. Even during his
lifetime, there were indications of a split in the ranks between the
educated elite and the working base.
The Republican leadership
will either have to shed its phony pretenses or become a thing of the
past. Conservatives don't win elections by kowtowing to feminists and
minorities. We must win hearts and minds by offering a better
alternative to liberal failures. We must convince women through
rational discourse that they have a better place in the home raising
children, and in workplace employment that does not create artificial
incentives pitting them against more intelligent men. Dividing men
against women only increases the power of the greedy, and leads to the
further exploitation of women by the few.